My problem exactly. For real productivity I have my laptop; other circumstances and a tablet is a far more portable option, even with a separate keyboard.

Andreas Arambasic

Ah. I expected Asus to make a solid Chromebook. But oh well. The Acer seems fine too. And the Toshiba one looks also solid. Can’t wait for price, specs and release information. I’m really into buying one of these machines :)

Brian Ober

Do you know if the Acer version has a fan? Also what about an Samsung ARM refresh, any word?

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon

There is a new Samsung ARM Chromebook on the way – Octa-based

Brian Ober

any clue as to when?? I saw rumors back in May about this, but all high level rumor stuff…

dinmor

Samsung said there won’t be any new Chromebooks from them this year. I suspect sometime next spring.

http://blog.sudhirkhanger.com/ Sudhir Khanger

The new Chromebook by Acer is thicker, heavier and low in storage than Air. I think folks are willing to pay reasonable amount of greens for reasonably quality of product. Pixel is a great device but it is outrageously priced.

Anyone want to buy my “old” Acer C7 Chromebook so I can get the newer one when it comes out? :D

RobotiChris

How much? lol

koqelol

this is just awesome..

The reason I didnt buy a Chromebook from the start is because of slow Atom processors and been waiting it all this time for a Haswell line of processors.

Now show me the price and i’ll order one….. after i see what Asus got for us. :)

Sean Lumly

Seconded. I’m really excited for these machines. EDIT: I update my preference. I really like the Acer chromebook. The battery life (if accurate) is perfect, the weight is good, and the device looks fantastic. I’m looking forward to what Asus has in store (if anything), but I would easily pay double for a chromebook that looks like their Asus Zenbook Infinity (UX301)!

i’m sure chromeOS has it’s place, but is it easy to get a linux distro like ubuntu or mint onto these things, and if so, how is the hardware support?

Sebastiaan Franken

Meh, with Crouton it’s not hard but if you want this you should buy an Intel NUC; no hassle with a small SSD and such.

Curtis Mitchell

crouton is a good solution to a lightweight Ubuntu variant if you don’t mind lack of security. The bootloader is kind of funky but there have been several Linux communities that have sprung up around tinkering with these things so more and more distros are becoming available. Support is fairly great as long as you’re Intel chipped. ARM results have been mediocre but I’ve been happy with my Linux build which I keep on a flash card.

Curtis Mitchell

Ahh, an Asus Chromebox? I will be watching that closely. Just as I had settled on going for a chromebox as a desktop solution, they stopped being available.

Will want some deets on that HP Chromebook. I want a larger screen but I need some bells and whistles.

captainkirk

I was about to get a current Chromebook a couple of weeks back until I heard about these. Going to wait and see which of the new ones I like best but looking forward to joining the Chromebook revolution and may get a Chromebox as well.

http://about.me/rrkelley Ryan Kelley

I LOVE my chromebook.

Harrison Pace

I just noticed how similar the Toshiba Chromebook looks to the Samsung 550. Really interested why press release was not issued for all three, I guess Toshiba may come to the market later? Looks somewhat promising though, here’s hoping for a good track-pad and good keyboard and I’m pretty much sold…

Sean Lumly

As lovely as these Chromebooks are, it would be even better if there was an official user-install-able version of ChromeOS. I understand that there are logistical problems with hardware drivers, but it would be amazing on devices like the gorgeous Acer Zenbook Infinity.

For now, at least we have pre-rolled distributions of Chromium OS, though I’m not sure if the OS updates automatically, or is as secure as ChromeOS is.

Charles L

chromeos.hexxeh.net, these are developer builds that you can try- pretty much everything is striped out and it has more drivers and supports more hardware, but it is chrome/chromium OS.

Sean Lumly

Thanks Charles!

Shriram Bhat

its ASUS and not ACER

Sean Lumly

Thanks for the correction!

corentin barré

when toshiba’s chromebook come ? I want it for chrismas day…but don’t news about toshiba specs and date.